HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryIdentity (basic)Government IDPIICriticalContained

Scottrade Financial Services, Inc.

bd_6308d977824ec33d · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Critical

Discovered

Aug 26, 2015

Filed

Oct 12, 2015

To disclose

7 weeks

Affected · nationwide

4,600,00032,778 in this filing

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for Scottrade Financial Services, Inc. →2 incidents on file

Scottrade, Inc. disclosed that unauthorized access to its systems occurred between late 2013 and early 2014, resulting in the theft of client names, addresses, and potentially SSNs and emails from approximately 4.6 million clients. The incident was discovered in August 2015 following a federal law enforcement investigation. Scottrade notified clients starting October 2, 2015, and offered one year of identity protection services.

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Hawaii clock✓ HI CRA notice due7 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 694 days

discovery → filing · 7 weeks / 47 days

Oct 1, 2013

Begins

Aug 26, 2015

Discovered

Oct 12, 2015

Filed

vs. sector median

1 wks faster

This filing is one of 6 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

South Carolina State AGbd_62c750d424228c7f2015-10-14 · +2dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_7a88db0d173afd492015-10-02 · +10dVerified
California State AGbd_5160d22e69e175612015-10-01 · +11dVerified
Washington State AGbd_ec3a31595e6b58072015-09-30 · +12dVerified

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New Hampshire State AGbd_8452bf34661dd7b22015-09-25 · +17dCandidate

Name: Scottrade Financial Services, Inc.
norm: scottrade financial
Domain: scottrade.com
Industry: financial_services

Name: Scottrade Financial Services, Inc.
norm: scottrade financial
Domain: scottrade.com
Industry: financial_services
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Aug 26, 2015
Breach occurred: Oct 1, 2013 – Mar 1, 2014
Undetected for: 694 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Oct 2, 2015
Affected individuals: 4,600,000state + nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDPII
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1119 Automated Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Cooperating with federal law enforcement officialsProvided notification to primary federal financial regulators
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Initiated a comprehensive response
Cooperating with law enforcement in their investigation and prosecution of the criminals involved
Secured the known intrusion point
Conducted an internal data forensics investigation with assistance from a leading computer security firm
Taken appropriate steps to further strengthen network defenses
Arranged with AllClear ID to provide identity protection services to affected clients at no cost for a period of one year
Provided notification to primary federal financial regulators
Providing notice to all current and former clients beginning on October 2, 2015
Providing notice on its website and through social media
Changes made: Secured the known intrusion point
Taken appropriate steps to further strengthen network defenses
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 7 weeks(47 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: HI CRA notice due
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 6 states

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New Hampshire State AGSep 25 · first

Washington State AG+5d

California State AG+6d

Massachusetts State AG+7d

Hawaii State AG+17d · this page

South Carolina State AG+19d

Pattern: first filing Sep 25 (NH), last Oct 14 (SC) — a 19-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

Source URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20211024101019id_/https://cca.hawaii.gov/ocp/files/2015/12/OCP-2015-0631.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Oct 12, 2015
Raw hash: e2854bf048fdf2792e454dceb6049eea26cc860e167e149dbbaffa09f1125e3d

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityScottrade Financial Services, Inc.

Victim entityScottrade Financial Services, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Aug 26, 2015

Stated responseInitiated a comprehensive response

ComplianceHI CRA notice due

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceweb.archive.org